Stories Not to Pass On: Collective Material Cultural Memory in Twenty-First-Century Urban Literature

MELUS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-234
Author(s):  
Jacinta R Saffold
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Urban Literature ◽  
Twenty First Century

James Thomson and ‘Rule, Britannia’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph McLean
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
James Thomson ◽  
British State ◽  
The Impact

The image of Britannia long pre-dated the eighteenth century, but throughout its history she was often viewed as the victim of outside aggression rather than as the defender of the realm. This chapter demonstrates how Thomson’s refashioning of Britannia, most notably in the masque Alfred, which he and David Mallet wrote for the young Prince Frederick, created an imperial icon that was subsequently used to export a brand of maritime patriotism across Britain’s expanding Empire. Thomson’s Britannia, representing both the Scottish and the English contribution to the British state, celebrates the Anglo-Scottish Union and the impact that this Union had on liberty and commerce. Such was the popularity of Thomson’s vision of Britannia that it inspired repeated imitations, emulations, and parodies, and continues to be a part of the British cultural memory in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Shelving Books?: Representations of the Library in Contemporary Texts

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Margaret-Anne Hutton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Material Space ◽  
National Literatures

Established for over two decades, archive studies have often conflated the archive and the library, leading to the theoretical neglect of the latter. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, however, critical and historical works on the library have been on the increase. At the same time, a body of fictional texts offers a very specific representation of the library in the digital age. The literary libraries discussed here – a sample published post-2000, drawn from seven national literatures and representing various genres – champion the codex and construct the library as an affective, nostalgic material space. Acknowledging the ubiquity of digitization whilst nonetheless eschewing a simplistic material/ digital binary, they rework familiar tropes such as the universal library, the library destroyed, and the library as a symbol or repository of cultural memory. Finally, these are spaces of (gendered) familial psychic dramas, tracing oedipal conflicts, family romances and troubled transgenerational legacies.

Managing Networks of Twenty-First Century Organisations

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perri Six ◽  
Nick Goodwin ◽  
Edward Peck ◽  
Tim Freeman
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century
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